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Letter "E" » Ernest Hemingway Quotes
«A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.»
«Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over»
Author: Ernest Hemingway
| About:
Architecture,
Poetry,
Prose
| Keywords:
architecture, baroque, decoration, decorations, Interior, interior decoration, prose
«God knows people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; camp following eunuchs of literature. They won't even whore. They're all virtuous and sterile. And how well meaning and high minded. But they're all camp followers.»
Author: Ernest Hemingway
| About:
Criticism,
Literature
| Keywords:
attitudes, camp, camped, camping, camp follower, critics, eunuchs, followers, following, high-minded, minded, professional, sterile, virtuous, well-meaning, whore
«Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer. Those who do not last are always more beloved since no one has to see them in their long, dull, unrelenting, no-quarter-given-and-no»
Author: Ernest Hemingway
| Keywords:
all important, No Quarter, outmoded, quarter, unrelenting, word of honor
«If the book is good, is about something that you know, and is truly written, and reading it over you see that this is so, you can let the boys yip and the noise will have that pleasant sound coyotes make on a very cold night when they are out in the snow and you are in your own cabin that you have built or paid for with your work.»
«There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.»
Author: Ernest Hemingway
| About:
Sports
| Keywords:
bullfighting, motor, motoring, motors, mountaineering, racing, sports
«I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else has done though you might have done it if they hadn't.»
«You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.»
Author: Ernest Hemingway
«You know lots of criticism is written by characters who are very academic and think it is a sign you are worthless if you make jokes or kid or even clown. I wouldn't kid Our Lord if he was on the cross. But I would attempt a joke with him if I ran in»
Author: Ernest Hemingway
| Keywords:
academic, Academics, characters, clown, jokes, kid, ran, sign of the cross, The cross, worthless
«To be a successful father there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years»
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